heartsick
heartsick adjective: very despondent or sorrowful; heartsore.
Adjective
heartsick (comparative more heartsick, superlative most heartsick)
- Very despondent or sorrowful; heartsore.
- I stood close to heartsick mourners and worried that I would not sustain the enormousness of their spiritual weight.2024 September 17, Lauren DePino, “I Sang at Hundreds of Funerals. This Is What I Learned About Grief.”, in The New York Times Magazine
- Synonyms:
- miserable, unhappy, atrabiliary, atrabilious, blitheless, dispirited, blue, bummed out, chapfallen, cheerless
heartsick meaning in Tamil, Bengali and Malayalam
heartsick in Tamil
- தளர்வுற்ற
heartsick in Bengali
- খুবই হতাশাগ্রস্ত, শোকার্ত, মর্মাহত
heartsick in Malayalam
- depressed, despondent, dejected
- മനോവേദനയുള്ള, നിരാശാഹൃദയനായ, ആശയറ്റ, മനംതളർന്ന, വിഷണ്ണ, മനസ്താപപ്പെട്ട
Synonyms of heartsick
- miserable
- unhappy
- atrabiliary
- atrabilious
- blitheless
- dispirited
- blue
- bummed out
- chapfallen
- cheerless
30 more synonymsFewer synonyms
- chopfallen
- crestfallen
- cut up
- damp
- dejected
- depressed
- despondent
- disgruntled
- disconsolate
- disheartened
- dismal
- doleful
- dolesome
- down
- down in the dumps
- down in the mouth
- downcast
- downhearted
- downsome
- dull
- elegiac
- elegious
- forlorn
- gloomy
- glum
- grief-stricken
- grieving
- heavy-hearted
- heartsore
- inconsolable
Forms of heartsick
| comparative | more heartsick |
|---|---|
| superlative | most heartsick |
Origin of heartsick
From heart + sick.
Words formed from heartsick
Questions about heartsick
- What does heartsick mean?
- Heartsick means very despondent or sorrowful; heartsore.
- What is heartsick in Tamil?
- Heartsick in Tamil is தளர்வுற்ற. See Heartsick meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is heartsick?
- Heartsick is an adjective.
Words near heartsick in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: heartsick (page history and authors); heartsick (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); heartsick (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); heartsick (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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